He says the study is an example of Simpson's Paradox, the statistical phenomenon that an aggregated set of data looks different when it is broken down. (sciencemag.org)
[Jan Lorenz et al, How social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowds effect] Crowd wisdom is actually a statistical phenomenon. (scientificamerican.com)
Sophia Passy, an associate professor of biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, has now demonstrated that this distribution is driven by environmental favorability and species stress tolerance, shedding light on the long - standing academic debate about whether this much - studied pattern is a biological or a non-biological, or even a statistical phenomenon. (sciencedaily.com)